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The Shuixian Zunwang are worshipped as protectors of ships in transit. A shrine in their honor was included on most Taiwanese vessels during the imperial era; even today, most Taiwanese harbors include temples to them. There are shrines dedicated to the deities in many
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and sea deities. They have various names in English including the Honorable Water Immortal Kings and the Lords of the Water. All five deities were formerly famous heroes and are related to water in certain ways. They are also believed to protect vessels in transit.
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BC. He is usually said to have slit his throat and had his body torn to pieces by his enemies, but he became regarded as a water deity from a separate legend that his body miraculously remained standing in the waters of the Wu after his suicide.
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is a variant of the Chinese word for "five".) The honorable kings or Lords of Water were related to water in certain ways and were first worshipped around
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of carpentry and masonry. The great demand for his work during his life supposedly compelled him to invent or improve a number of carpenter's tools—the
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while holding a rock, out of frustration with either his exile or with the direction of Chu's public policy. His memory is honored at
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is sometimes considered to refer to a single Illustrious King. In such cases, it is usually identified with Yu alone.
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The existence of a quintet of gods, however, is thought to derive from a misunderstanding of
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to punish it for the earlier death of his father and brother. He accurately predicted that
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generally fails to distinguish between singular and plural nouns,
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would endanger Wu but did not have the ear of Helü's successor
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is suggested to be derive from a misunderstanding of one of
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The worship of the Shuixian Zunwang as a quintet of
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Index


Penghu Shuixian Temple
Chinese
水仙尊王
Immortals
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wade–Giles

Tainan
Taiwan

Anping Tianhou Temple

Grand Matsu Temple
Chinese
Deities
water
Yu the Great
legendary
emperor
Xia
dynasty
prehistoric China
Erlitou culture
Wei
Yellow Rivers
Great Flood
Chinese myth
Chinese

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